Student comperes

The Pulse Alive team are seeking students confident in public speaking to act as comperes for Pulse Alive 2025.

How to apply

Applications are now closed for individual students to nominate to be a compere in Pulse Alive 2025.

Auditions will be via video, which must be submitted with the nomination form.

To audition, students are required to:

Record yourself reading the script below and upload the video to the application form.
Change the words in red to personalise your recording.
Videos should either be uploaded to YouTube (as an unlisted link) or Vimeo with a password (please be sure to include the password to your video on your application form).

Two students wearing Pulse Alive t-shirts standing in a stadium talking into and holding a microphone

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Eligibility and selection

Nominations are open to students in Year 5 to Year 12 in 2025 who will be enrolled at a NSW public school.

Students will be mentored during the process by a professional MC and supported through their involvement in the event.

Application is via video audition.

Please note, this category is only open to individual performers. Students selected as comperes will not be able to participate in the event in an additional category.

Successful students will require the endorsement of their school principal to participate. Students are encouraged to discuss their nomination with a teacher at their school prior to submission

Students participating in this category will be supervised by members of the Pulse Alive team. Schools will not be expected to provide a teacher for duty of care of these students.

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Audition script

Hello and welcome to Ken Rosewall Arena for Pulse Alive 2025!

I’m {insert name} from {insert school name} and it is so {exciting, thrilling, energising, or your own} to be here with over 2000 students from NSW public schools showcasing an incredible array of talent.

Pulse Alive 2025 is all about celebrating the plethora of art created by Australian talent. So, every song you hear tonight is 100% Australian. Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

A big arena like this calls for a big sound and joining us in the stands we have the {massive, beautiful, thundering, or your own} 1000-voice Pulse Alive massed choir. And, accompanying our entire show we have the {incredible, amazing, wonderful, or your own} Pulse Alive Showband.

But for now, please welcome to the stage Elton John with his own special rendition of the Wiggles classic 'Hot Potato'.

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Key dates

Date	Term/week	Details	Venue
Mon 2 Sep 2024	Term 3 Week 7	Nominations close
Mon 14 Oct 2024	Term 4 Week 1	Notification of audition results
Sat 15 Mar 2025	Term 1 Week 7	Compere scripting and rehearsal	The Arts Unit, Lewisham
Wed 19 Mar 2025	Term 1 Week 8	Blocking, sound check and full dress rehearsal	Ken Rosewall Arena
Thu 20 and Fri 21 Mar 2025	Term 1 Week 8	Performances	Ken Rosewall Arena

Commitment

Students selected as comperes must be available for all rehearsal and performance dates. A medical certificate must be supplied for each missed rehearsal, otherwise students will forfeit their place as a compere. No refunds of student resource fees will be given in this circumstance. Due to the limited number of rehearsals for comperes, any rehearsal missed due to illness (with a medical certificate) will result in the student's role being modified or reduced.

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Costume

The performance clothes for the comperes will be as follows:

Coloured Pulse Alive t-shirt – this is the show t-shirt that is included within your student resource fee.
Blue denim jeans – these will need to be supplied by students.
White socks – these will need to be supplied by students.
White sneakers– these will need to be supplied by students.

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Resource fee

There will be a resource fee of $120 per student (GST inclusive).

The resource fee assists with the costs involved in the conductors, choreographers and tutors working with the students, supports a number of music clearance costs and includes a Pulse Alive t-shirt, which will be worn by all performers as their costume during the event.

Student comperes will be required to pay the resource fee through The Arts Unit student payment portal on acceptance into the show.

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